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Piano Classics

Ravel: Complete Piano Works

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Details

Composer
Maurice Ravel
Artist
Konstantinos Destaunis
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Oct 10, 2025
Catalog #
PCL10336
UPC
5029365103367

About

Konstantinos Destounis has made a speciality of Ravel’s piano works, playing them in concert on many occasions, including a two-night survey of the whole solo-piano output at the Conservatoire in Athens last November. He made this recording around the same time and captures the sense of music on the wing, still wet on the page from the pen of its fastidious creator. Born in Athens in 1991, Destounis studied in Thessaloniki and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg before taking his Master’s at the Royal College of Music in London. Springboard to his performing career has been winning many international piano competitions, most notably the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens, the Southern Highlands in Canberra and the Bremen European Piano Competition. On this album, his first major recording, he reveals himself to be a compelling interpreter of music which still sets a benchmark among pianists for technical finesse and musicianship. For Ravel, as for Beethoven and Stravinsky, the craft of composition was an essentially pianistic endeavour. While his image has become fixed in popular reception by masterpieces of orchestral colour such as Boléro, La valse, and Daphnis et Chloé, the composer regarded the processes of composition and orchestration as separate. He remarked to his student Vaughan Williams that ‘without a piano one cannot invent new harmonies’. Ravel paid tribute to his teacher Gabriel Fauré as ‘the origin of whatever pianistic innovation my works may be thought to contain’. All the same, the pianistic influence of Saint-Saëns makes its presence felt too, and Chabrier in the early pieces. Perhaps Ravel becomes more himself in each successive piece, from the Sérénade grotesque of 1892–93 through to Le tombeau de Couperin of 1914–17, but the process is one of refinement rather than radical transformation, taking in the darkly disturbing imagery of Gaspard de la nuit, which rapidly assumed totemic significance within the modern piano literature.

Tracklist 27 tracks

  1. 1 I. Ondine 07:02
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Ondine
    Duration
    07:02
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  2. 2 II. Le gibet 06:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Le gibet
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  3. 3 III. Scarbo 09:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scarbo
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  4. 4 No. 1. Noctuelles 04:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Noctuelles
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  5. 5 No. 2. Oiseaux tristes 03:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Oiseaux tristes
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  6. 6 No. 3. Une barque sur l'Océan 07:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. Une barque sur l'Océan
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  7. 7 No. 4. Alborada del gracioso 06:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. Alborada del gracioso
    Duration
    06:44
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  8. 8 No. 5. La Vallée des Cloches 05:15
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. La Vallée des Cloches
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  9. 9 Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano) 15:12
    Track
    9
    Title
    Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano)
    Duration
    15:12
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  10. 10 Jeux d'eau 05:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    Jeux d'eau
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  11. 11 I. Modéré 04:02
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Modéré
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  12. 12 II. Mouvement de Menuet 03:20
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Mouvement de Menuet
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  13. 13 III. Animé 04:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Animé
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  14. 14 No. 1. Prélude 03:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 1. Prélude
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  15. 15 No. 2. Fugue 03:07
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 2. Fugue
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  16. 16 No. 3. Forlane 05:40
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 3. Forlane
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  17. 17 No. 4. Rigaudon 03:09
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 4. Rigaudon
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  18. 18 No. 5. Menuet 04:41
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 5. Menuet
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  19. 19 No. 6. Toccata 04:19
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 6. Toccata
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  20. 20 Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano) 06:20
    Track
    20
    Title
    Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano)
    Duration
    06:20
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  21. 21 Menuet antique (version for piano) 06:16
    Track
    21
    Title
    Menuet antique (version for piano)
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  22. 22 Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn 01:51
    Track
    22
    Title
    Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  23. 23 A la manière de Borodine 01:40
    Track
    23
    Title
    A la manière de Borodine
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  24. 24 A la manière de Chabrier 02:15
    Track
    24
    Title
    A la manière de Chabrier
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  25. 25 Sérénade grotesque 03:49
    Track
    25
    Title
    Sérénade grotesque
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  26. 26 Prélude 01:35
    Track
    26
    Title
    Prélude
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis
  27. 27 Menuet in C-Sharp Minor 00:53
    Track
    27
    Title
    Menuet in C-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Konstantinos Destounis